The tapan has an Arabic origin and Turkish brought it to Bulgaria during the Yoke. It gains popularity very fast and nowadays plays great role in folklore music. However it is rarely used in the Rhodope region...

The tamboura in comparison with the other musical folk instruments is not so diffused as gadoulka. There are tambouras with the different extent very often in the region of Raslog, Gotse Delchev and others. All tamboura's strings are metallic whit four pairs or altogether 8 strings or three pairs or altogether 6 strings.

Kaval - The kaval is one of the most diffused musical folk instruments used a lot by the Bulgarians from long time ago still now. It's used in the whole Bulgaria and especially in Thrace and Dobrudja. The technical construction of all different kinds of the kaval is the same...